Five personal expense tracker apps for Android

You know something might have gone wrong when your phone is ringing non-stop with collection agency calls, you are living in your parents' garage and scouring the Web for details on declaring personal bankruptcy.

"Don't spend more than you earn" might have been trendy until the 70s or so, but afterwards the banking industry made sure to nip such a wacky idea in the bud. In this day and age, personal finance discipline is more important than ever, and, thanks to your trusted mobile device, it is now also much easier to do.

We are listing some of our favorite personal expense trackers for Android - log in that burger or the oil change with just a quick tap on the home screen widget, or fire up your income/expenses pie chart every time you are thinking of buying that shiny new phone you can't afford. The big red piece there will definitely give you second thoughts.

CashTrack is a simple, thoughtful and very good looking expense tracker from a small Swedish app developer that has gotten almost everything right, and with incredibly useful widgets to boot.

"When you’re about to pay for your newly found t-shirt, quickly open CashTrack on your phone, type in the amount, select the appropriate category, you’ll be done before you get your change back, it’s that easy! Don’t worry about remembering what transaction is which, with optional settings like automatically geotagging and being able to add descriptions to transactions you will never have to wonder."

To these we'll add the customizable Overview page, the option for password protection and all for free.

The nice part about Toshl is its cross-platform heritage. Whether you are coming from a Nokia Symbian phone, the iPhone or simply your desktop, there is a good chance that you've came across Toshl as an option for doing your finances, so you can just log in and go. Toshl has a widget that is as simple as it gets and you are about to use it daily once installed.

It tracks expenses and budgets, helps you visualize and analyze data with infographics to see where your money is going, syncs to the cloud for backup, and offers multiple devices sync, so your family, small business or group of friends can track common expenses under the same account.

One of the best looking personal finance apps out there, Money Lover for Android color codes everything for easier visualization.

Besides the usual income/expense tacking, it acts like a financial calendar, alerts you to debts, and reminds you of transactions. It works with 45 different currencies and is available in many languages.

Yo'd be hard pressed to find a better app on the Play Store for automating your expense reports. You can start off with Expensify's website to sync with your credit cards and bank accounts, so as to track purchases as they happen.

Expensify pulls in eReceipts, digital copies of the paper receipts for the vast majority of purchases under $75, and any remaining out of pocket purchases can be logged from the phone, using it as a receipt scanner.

The app snaps an image of your receipt and takes the merchant, date and amount of the transaction. The information is then used to either create a new cash expense or attach the receipt to its matching credit card purchase. Perfect for road warriors.

As we said, a great app, which only needs a little bit of interface polishing to make it an Editor Pick, otherwise it is getting rave reviews from almost everyone that has used it, and we are sure you'll do too if you take it for a spin.

CashTrack is a simple, thoughtful and very good looking expense tracker from a small Swedish app developer that has gotten almost everything right, and with incredibly useful widgets to boot.

"When you’re about to pay for your newly found t-shirt, quickly open CashTrack on your phone, type in the amount, select the appropriate category, you’ll be done before you get your change back, it’s that easy! Don’t worry about remembering what transaction is which, with optional settings like automatically geotagging and being able to add descriptions to transactions you will never have to wonder."

To these we'll add the customizable Overview page, the option for password protection and all for free.

Five personal expense tracker apps for Android

CashTrack is a simple, thoughtful and very good looking expense tracker from a small Swedish app developer that has gotten almost everything right, and with incredibly useful widgets to boot.

"When you’re about to pay for your newly found t-shirt, quickly open CashTrack on your phone, type in the amount, select the appropriate category, you’ll be done before you get your change back, it’s that easy! Don’t worry about remembering what transaction is which, with optional settings like automatically geotagging and being able to add descriptions to transactions you will never have to wonder."

To these we'll add the customizable Overview page, the option for password protection and all for free.

The nice part about Toshl is its cross-platform heritage. Whether you are coming from a Nokia Symbian phone, the iPhone or simply your desktop, there is a good chance that you've came across Toshl as an option for doing your finances, so you can just log in and go. Toshl has a widget that is as simple as it gets and you are about to use it daily once installed.

It tracks expenses and budgets, helps you visualize and analyze data with infographics to see where your money is going, syncs to the cloud for backup, and offers multiple devices sync, so your family, small business or group of friends can track common expenses under the same account.

One of the best looking personal finance apps out there, Money Lover for Android color codes everything for easier visualization.

Besides the usual income/expense tacking, it acts like a financial calendar, alerts you to debts, and reminds you of transactions. It works with 45 different currencies and is available in many languages.

Yo'd be hard pressed to find a better app on the Play Store for automating your expense reports. You can start off with Expensify's website to sync with your credit cards and bank accounts, so as to track purchases as they happen.

Expensify pulls in eReceipts, digital copies of the paper receipts for the vast majority of purchases under $75, and any remaining out of pocket purchases can be logged from the phone, using it as a receipt scanner.

The app snaps an image of your receipt and takes the merchant, date and amount of the transaction. The information is then used to either create a new cash expense or attach the receipt to its matching credit card purchase. Perfect for road warriors.

As we said, a great app, which only needs a little bit of interface polishing to make it an Editor Pick, otherwise it is getting rave reviews from almost everyone that has used it, and we are sure you'll do too if you take it for a spin.

Mint is nice but so not customizable I like to couple it with something more personalizable, I tried a few of those and the best one to me is droid money.
It's a brand new app but it's the best one, really fast and easy to use!

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